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Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13948, 1 May 1909, Page 3

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GISBORNK, May 1. A man named J<.hn Watkin. who Wai committed \esterilay to Auckland Mental Hospital on a charge of luunev, jumped overboard from the steane 1 Tuaka as the latter was proceeding t i Victoria this morning. The cunstiibli in attendance grabbed him by the le;t ns lie jumped over the rail, hut »alivable to hold him, and he drnppe 1 into the water and was not seen again